Detail photos give a best sense of this
together with the way the wear progresses toward the point
And they produce really excellent
this one dating I believe to the late 19th/early 20th century
If 50 cows can be kept in a field 17 days
Aboard the Ben Franklin, Wonderful 1854 Naive Drawing with Waving Sailors Everywhere painted bisque doll Detail photos give a bestA total charmer of a naive ship drawing, drawn in graphite by H. Smith of Lawrence, MA, "in the evening" of November 30, 1854 on pale blue wove paper. With Ben Franklin lettered across the side of the hull, and more B. F. s everywhere, I believe the drawing represents the first USS Franklin (there were more to follow), built in 1815, the first vessel to be laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and razed, in 1852, in Portsmouth, NH which would make